Healing Female Friendships – Michelle Obama

Repairing relationships and healing female friendships is the key to keeping friends for the long haul! (and to being healthy and happy). Here’s what Michelle Obama says about broken relationships and healing female friendships – plus several tips for repairing relationships.

“Women have to be able to champion other women,” said Michelle Obama in a recent issue of [...]

Overcoming an Unexpected Relationship Breakup – Eleanor Roosevelt

The end of a relationship is especially difficult to overcome when you don’t know for sure why it ended! These ways to overcome an unexpected relationship breakup are based on a reader’s question on 10 Tips for Surviving a Breakup. These tips aren’t just for the end of romantic relationships – they include the end of friendships, too.

Here’s what Eleanor [...]

How Not to Lose Your Personal Identity in a Romantic Relationship

The life lesson: a woman can lose her personal identity in a romantic relationship – and not realize it until it’s too late! The successful woman: George Eliot, a prolific writer who lived in the 1880’s. Her real name was Mary Anne Evans (she uses a male pen name so her work would be taken [...]

Coping With Negative Coworkers Who Drain Your Energy – Anais Nin

The life lesson: negative coworkers will drain your energy – unless you figure out how to cope! The successful woman: Anais Nin, whose quotations are some of the most inspirational and practical I’ve ever come across.

“From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and [...]

5 Stages of Leaving an Abusive Relationship – Tina Turner

The life lesson: leaving an abusive relationship involves five stages of separation. The successful woman: Tina Turner – one of the greatest singers of all time – who was in an abusive marriage for 16 years.

“Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go – purge yourself,” says Tina Turner. “If you are unhappy with anything . [...]